Port Management and Operations

ISBN-13: 9781843117506 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 205 str.

P. Alderton

Opis

A guide to port management in the twenty-first century. It provides the reader with a complete understanding of total port activity. It enables managers working in specific areas of ports to see where they fit into the port's operation and commercial practice as a whole.

Spis treści

Chapter 1.  Ports  Chapter 2.  Port Development  Chapter 3.  Impact of Changing Ship Technology on Ports  Chapter 4.  Port Approaches  Chapter 5.  Port Administration, Ownership and Management  Chapter 6.  Port Policy  Chapter 7.  Berths and Terminals  Chapter 8.  Cargo and Cargo Handling  Chapter 9.  Port Labour  Chapter 10.  Time in Port and Speed of Cargo Handling  Chapter 11.  Port Costs, Prices and Revenue  Chapter 12.  Port Environmental Matters- Sustainable Development

O autorze

Patrick Alderton qualified as an Extra Master, and then became a lecturer of commercial transport at the London Guildhall University in the 1970s. He later moved to the World Maritime University in Sweden as the Professor of Ports and Shipping in the late 1980s.